Crispy Basil

I wasn’t able to do a second blog post yesterday because I got recruited to participate in the dance recital at work. A few times a year, we have Dance Week and major choreographers come to teach at the resort. At the end of the week, there’s a recital where the guests and instructors perform. With the other female dance fitness instructors (there were 5 of us), we did a Zumba dance. Of course there were a few snafus, but it was a lot of fun 😉

Work has been going very well lately- I still love it more every day and have learned a ton. Tomorrow is my first teaching day!!! (Beginning cardio/strength, aqua, and Zumba) – I’m pretty stoked 😉

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With everything going on, I somehow managed to forget to water my cute little basil plant. I was making b-fast this morning and remembered “the basil!!!!”, ran outside to check on it and alas…

Crispy basil.

Next to the basil is the inside of a flower pot that must have blown out from the wind this week and also dried to a crisp.

It looks normal from the outside, but I kinda have a black thumb:

Hooray for having a house in the near future.. with a sprinkler system 😉

My eats have been on the *usual* side lately. My appetite is all over the place and I have to be in the mood for what I’m eating. [Coleslaw always sounds good though, haha]

Some recent snacks:

Protein muffin made with goat’s milk yogurt instead of pumpkin. It worked really well and was the FLUFFIEST one yet!

Lot’s to do today! First I’m off to walk little Bell and get a haircut, then get crackalackin’ on the to-do list.

Have a beautiful day! <3

(Not my plant, haha)

xoxo,

Gina

Something to talk about:Any notorious plant killers out there, or do ya have a green thumb? Also, please let me know if there are any recipes you’d like to see- maybe it will help me bust out of this food rut!

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I have a black thumb too. 🙁 Last year my husband had to go to the emergency room for an inner ear infection. The doctor tried to show me how to flush his ear out with warm water (yeah, it was as gross as it sounds). All of a sudden (and under the influence of strong prescription pain killers) my husband shouts, “OH no! She is not watering my brain! She kills basil!”

I had a roommate move in for one month only last September and when he moved out he forgot his Basil plant but he had kept it outside originally so I didn’t pay much attention to it nor did I worry about it. Nor did we have room inside of the apartment for another plant either. Needless to say, the cold weather came and it died. but I do intend on using the pot it was in the plant something else though.

I love your response to maybe being pregnant. haha, “I will neither confirm nor deny any allegations.” I do wonder though, would you still be able to teach if you were with child?

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